Improvement in buckles



TTEE STATES PETER BURNS, OF SYRAOUSE, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN BUCKLES.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 181,407, dated August 22,1876; application led August 11, 1876.

' finds support upon the end or loop bar of the frame ot' the buckle, sothat the point of the tongue projects above the frame, or protrudes fromit, and is thus liable to catch into anything passed over the buckle.This feature is found to be quite annoying When the buckle' is used onharness, from the fact that the horses tail will continually catch onthe protruding points of the buckle-tongues. My improvement is intendedto overcome this objection 5 and to that end consists in shortening thetongue so that its free end only reaches to about the inner edge ot' theend or loop bar of the frame, and providing the frame with an extracross-bar under the tongue, for affording the necessary support theretoagainstthe pull of the strap, this extra cross-bar being so arrangedthat the point ot' the tongue will be flush with, or slightly below, theouter surface of the loopbar, when the tongue rests 011 such extracross-bar.

In the annexed drawings, Figure l is a perspective of my improvedbuckle. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section, showing a strap locked in thebuckle.

The same letters of reference are used in both figures in thedesignation of identical parts.

The buckle shown is of the simplest form', consisting of a rectangularframe, to the end bar A of which the tongue O is pivoted. The tongue,When turned toward the other end bar or loop-bar B, reaches close to theinner edge of such loop-bar, but docs not come in contact therewith. Onthe contrary, instead ot' finding support on such loop-bar with itspoint, it swings t'ree of it, and is stopped only by a cross-bar, D,formed on the frame, below it, and as near to the loop-bar and the pointof the tongue as practicable, due consideration being given in thelocating ot' the cross-bar D to the size of the strap, so that saidcross-bar may not interfere with the convenient inscrtion of such strap.

My invention may be adapted to all buckles of the kind alluded to,Whether of the simple form shown or of a more complex design.

I do not claim, broadly, a cross-bar arranged so as to give support tothe tongue against the pull ot' the strap; but

What I do claim, and desire to secure byW Letters Patent, is-

A buckle, substantially such as described, in which the tongue swingsfree of the bar B, and the frame has a depressed cross-bar under thetongue.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to the foregoingspecification in the presence of tvvo subscribing Witnesses.

PETER BURNS.

Witnesses: Y

W. S. HUNTINGTON, W. B. BURNS.

